Death waits inside us for a door to open. Death is patient as a dead cat. Death is a doorknob made of flesh. Death is that angelic farm girl gored by the bull on her way home from school, crossing the pasture for a shortcut. In the seventh grade she couldn't read or write. She wasn't a virgin. She was "simpleminded," we all said. It was May, a time of lilacs and shooting stars. She's lived in my memory for sixty years. Death steals everything except our stories.

While I suppose a poem about death is not something one would ordinarily consider to be inspirational, this is different. First, it's written by the great novelist ("Legends of the Fall"), essayist, and poet Jim Harrison who died last year in his home in Arizona. He was 78 years old. Second, it's a powerful poem which reminds us of two things: Each of us is born with an expiration date. And "Death steals everything except our stories."

Stories transcend death. See if that doesn't inspire you in writing your current story.

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